New Release & Video: This Is The Kit – By My Demon Eye

This Is the Kit have shared their new Rough Trade Session track By My Demon Eye, taken from the latest album Moonshine Freeze

Have a watch below…

Talking about the track, Kate Stables states, “This song started out as a project to make a piece of music based around the song that rabbit and tortoise sing in a Hugh Tracey story called “Rabbit and Tortoise”. I love the sound of his voice. Both when he’s talking and when he’s singing. And the sounds and rhythm and the meaning of the song he sings in this story just wrung so strongly in my ear and my head.

The translation of the song’s chorus is “boil boil water boil let the liar be boiled”. The song that ended up getting written is maybe misleading as people find it to be quite a “lovely sort of happy gentle song” but when they find out what the chorus means they’re often a bit shocked. But for me it is an upsetting song. It’s not meant to be happy. It’s a heart wrenching situation between two people who have no solution for the mess they are in. but then again, I guess stories are often simply what we decide to hear”

The band have been on the road with The National over the last month or so, and will be also supporting them on their upcoming US tour as well as playing their own EU shows…